IP Fabric

IP Fabric is a network management system used to discover, verify, visualize and document large scale networks.

Parameters

1. IP Fabric Domain (required) - The hostname or IP address of the IP Fabric server that Axonius can communicate with via the Required Ports. For example: https://ipfabric.axonius.lan.
2. User Name and Password (optional, preferred option) - The credentials for a user account that has the Required Permissions to fetch assets. Use either User Name and Password or API Key. Refer to API Keys for information on obtaining the API Key.
3. API Key - An API Key associated with a user account that has the Required Permissions to fetch assets. Use either API Key or User Name and Password.
4. Verify SSL (required, default: False) - Verify the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
   • If enabled, the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain will be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius. If the SSL certificate can not be validated against the CA database inside of Axonius, the connection will fail with an error.
   • If disabled, the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain will not be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius.
5. HTTPS Proxy (optional, default: empty) - A proxy to use when connecting to the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain.
   • If supplied, Axonius will utilize the proxy when connecting to the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain.
   • If not supplied, Axonius will connect directly to the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain.
6. For details on the common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.
   
   

APIs

Axonius uses IPFabric API (v1).

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate with the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain via the following ports:

• 443 (HTTPS)
  
  

Required Permissions

The value supplied in User Name must have read access to devices.
Every user has their granted scope that allows them to access a different part of the IP Fabric application. The scope required is 'read' that provides access to read-only data.

For more details, see IP Fabric API - Authorization.